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About Weekly Gwinnett herald. (Lawrenceville, Ga.) 1871-1885 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1883)
ITuE v vET T ll E L D wf dnksp* t bt ~,cr> E* r,r ; PUE S & BOWLES. • »ir rio* katks: 1 ' a f1t1.50 in advance. [•3iuos., ' j fl advance. > m ° s '’ 50 in advance. ] rncS-t ;noug» tor Everybody I t'h b msanionto pop. ‘RA ■ minn a summer evening ■ P?" renewing dreaming. ■ ,'Liind star-! were beaming ■**l,l was faintly gleaming ■ i T inside my p H ,,vr * B t /murmur of a billow, gloom, ■. W a, heard a gentle sound, ■v on the « ir 1) ;’ onn ”’ Kuncclo from above, KidTplrUiewhitm-d head i^S r cooing, ■i heart to soothe with wooing, H a n angel from the sky K ypirit hovering mgh. 11 [i ,y entranced and dreaming, lle ,l by tbs echo seeming i lie wliispered Irom above, i,O starlight faintly gleaming, I, its form of beauty beaming beheld the snowy dove : I, „ thrill ol wond-r gazing he visitor amazing, kmunded : ‘‘who are you ? H,| dm gentle bird of whiteness, Hjih its snowy robejof btigh' ness, with a (“00 ; ■Tmse.it,’he said,‘from Aide.., a fair and lovely maiden, a message unto thee ; ■ni come to soothe thy sorrow, Hj thee from despair to borrow ■ ilorie that thou her lace shall see ; t r thy cherished one is living ,j her thoughts to thee is giving, ■On a brigl t and distant shore ; Hml I come, her carrier dove, K ith a message Irom thy love, I Who is thine lore vet more.’ By this joyful news excited, Rap turd, Ravished, and excited, ■ j the snowy bird addressing Bsk'ed, with earnest voice inquiring, K'luit my smti was most desiiing, m That Iwr name to me expressing, lie would set my heart at rest— ■till the tumult in my breast, ■ mi assure me that my maiden Bn the distant field, ot Aiden II Waited for me on that shore— I Wfuld be mine forevermore ■J’J}o» 1 -p<»k© with U-ivnr, E. the maiden's ardent lover, ■ ‘Does my own d parted live ? ■To the bitd of wliitencs- listening. ■While n.j eager ey-e were glistening, I For the answer lie wou d give , ■‘Tell me, 0 thou carrier dove, ■Of my absent cherished love, Whom I knew in days of yo-e : ■Has she passed the elii- ing portal ■Of the blessed land immortal, I Going through the golden door ? ■lloes she moye in light an I “piendor, IDo the graces all attend her, On that fair and distant shore ?' Words and tones and looks revealing All my depths of inward feeling, Moved, affected by my pleading, And my ax.ous question heeding, Thus the dove| my soul discerning. Answer made these wurds returning, ‘ln the distant fields of a‘u3» n, Ou a bright, Klysian shore, Dwells a fair and lovely maiden, And her name is Klinorc , Mid the lowers about her blooming Mid the odors sweet, perfuming All the balmy air around She, arrayed ir, robes of whiteness, Walks an angel in her brightness. With a wreath immortal crowned. 1 Then the bird, his wings unfolding. Left me, as I lay beholding Filled with transport and delight: With a soft,sonorious coo ' Nodding, bidding me adieu, Through the open window flew Out into the gloomy night. -’at the bright enchanting vision Of the distant fields of Klysian, And my cherished Klinore, As a fair and lovely maiden, Dwelling in the land of Aklen, is my light (oievermore; '1 here shall I, my loved one gree ing, At our future, early met ting, On that distant radient shore, M ith ecstatic joy and gladness, Iree from parting, pain and sadness, Olagp again my Klinore. Oall her mine forevermore! MIBCEIX.ANY. ENOUGH. A SERMON BY DR. TALMAGE. “Be content with such things ns ye have.”— Heb. 13 : 5. If I should ask one, ‘Where is Brooklyn to day ?’ he would say, 'U Shelter Island.’ ‘Where i H to day?’ ‘At Longßranch’ Where is Philadelphia.?’ ‘Cape May. ‘Where is Boston,?’ ‘At Martha’s Vineyard.’ Where is Virginia? ‘At the Sulphur Springs’ ‘?here is the great multitude from all parts of the land. ?’• ‘At huratoga.’ The modern Bstlisai ** a ' ”here the angei of health is ev the waters Bu s , my f>‘«nds the largest multitude are Weekly Gwinnett Herald. TYLKR M. PKKPI.ES.) Eorrou am, Pbopriftok. f AT HOME, detained by busir*sn or circum- | stances. Among them all new.,- i panel' men, the hardest worked j and the least compensated ; city railroad employees, and ferry mas 1 ters, and the polioee, aud tens of j thousands clerks and merchants I waiting; for their turn of business' and households with an invalid who cannot be moved, and other multitudes by the stringency of; the times hinderd from further ex pendituro, and the great multitude | of well to do people who stay at homo because they like home bet ter than any other place, refusing to go away because it is the sash - jou to go, When the express wagon with its mountain of trunks directed to the Catskills or Nirnga goes through the streets, we stand at our window envious and imps tient, and wonder why we cannrt g® as well as others. Fools that we are! us though one could not be as happy at ho in (5 as anywhere else. 011 r grandfathers and gran 1 mothers had as good a time as we have long bofore the first spring was bored at Saratoga or the first deep shot in the Adiron docks. They made their wedding tour to the next farmhouse, or liv ing in the city, they celebrated the event by a walk on the New York “batter v.” Now, the genuine American is not happy until ho is going some whore, and the passion is sr great that there are Christian people with their families, detained in the city, who come not to the house of Cod, trying to give people the idea that they are out of town; leaving the door plate unscoured fo*- the same reason, and for two months ko'ping the front shutters closed whilflTHey sit in the back part of the house, the thermometer at ninety. My friends, if it is best to go let us go and be happy. If it is best for ns to st ay at home let us stay, and be happy. There is a great deal of good common sense in Paul’s advice to the He brews, “Be content with such things aa ye 1 ave.” I. The first reason that I mention j as leading to this spirit advised in j the text is the consideration that j the poorest of us have all that is indispensable in life. Wo make a great ado about our hardships i>ut how little we talk of CUR BLE3S<NO9. Health of body, which is given in largest quantities to those who have never been petted and fond led and spoiled by fortune,we take as a matter of course. Rather have this luxury and have it alone, than without it, look out of a palace window upon parks of deer stalk ing between fountains and statua ry. These pe pie sleep -asunder on a straw ruatress than fashionable invalids on a couch of ivory and eagle’s down. The dinner of herbs tastes better to the appetite sharp ened ou a woodman's axe or a reap er’s scythe, than wealthy indiges tion experiences seated at a table covered with partridge and veni son and pineapple. He who trades that off for all tho palaces of the earth is infinitely cheated. We look back at tho glory of tho the last Napoleen. but who would have taken his Versailles and his Tuilerias if with them wehadbeen obliged io take his gout. ‘•Oh,” says soma one, “it isn’t the grosser pleaaurers /covet, but it is the gratification of an artistic and intellectual taste.” V by, my brother, you have the original from which these picturers are cop ied. What is a sunset on a wall compared with a sunset hung in loops of lire on the heavens? W hat is a cascade, silent on a ciuvas, compared with a cascade that makes the mountain tremble, its j ~prav ascending like the departed j spirit of the water slain on the Lawrenceville, Ga. Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1883 rocks ? Oh, tlioro is a great deal of HOLLOW AFFECTION about a fondness for pictures on the part of those who never aj pre ciate the original from which the pict*res are taken. As though a par- tit should ha to no regard for his child, but ge into ecs/acies at the photograph. Bless the Lord O man, O woman, that tho’ yon may he shut out from the works , of a Church, a Bierstadt, aliubens j and a Raphael, you still have free access ta a jail rj grander than the Louvre or the Luxemburg or the Vatican—the royal gallery of the noonday heavens, the King’s gal lery of the midnight sky. 11. Another consideration leading U 8 to a spirit of contentment is the ! fact that our happiness is not de pendent u ion outward circumstan j res. You see people HAPPY AND MISERABLE under all circumstances. In a sum i-iy where the last loaf is on the ta ble and the last stick es wood on the fire, you sometimes find a cheer fill confidence in God, while in a v°ry fine place you will see and hear discord sounding her war whoop and hospitality freezing to death in a cheerless parlor. I stopped one day on Broadway at the head of Wall Atm;/, at the foot of Trinity Church, to sec who seemed to be the happiest people passing. 1 judged from their locks that the happiest people were not those who went down into Wall Street, for they had on their brow the anxiety of tho dollar they ex pooled to make; nor the people who came out of Wall Street, for they had 01 their, hr v» the anxiety of the dollar they had lost: nor the people who swept by in splen did cquipas*, fur they met cai li nages liner than thoirs. The happiest person in all that crowd, judging from the countenance,was the woman who sett at Ike apple stand knitting. I believe real happiness ofteucr looks out of the window of an humble home, than through the opera glass of the gilded box of a theatre. I find Nero growling on a throne IfindPaul sieging in a dun geon. I find King Ahab going to bed at neon through melancholy, while near by is Naboth content ed in the possession of a vine yard. Hainan, Prime Master o's Persia, frets himself almost to death because a poor jew will not tip his hat, and Ahithophel, one of the great lawyers of Bible times, through fear of dying, hangs him | self. The wealthiest man forty ’ years ago in New York when con j gratulated over his largo estate re | plied, “Ah, you don't know how j much trouble I have in taking care ; ct it.” Byron declared in his last hours that be had never seen more than twelve happy days in all his life. I do uot belive he bad seen twelve minutes of thorough satisfaction, Napoleon, said, “I turn with d s gust from the cowardice and sel fishness of man. I hold life a hor ror; death is repose. What I have suffered the last twenty days “s beyond human comprehension.” While, on the other band, to show how one may be happy amid tho most disadvantageous circurn stances, just after the Ocean Mon arch hue. been wrecked in the En glish Channel a steamer was ernis ing along in the darkness, when the captain heard a seng, a swoet sung, coming over the water, and he bore down towards that veice and found it was a Christian, woman on a plank es the wrecked steamer, singing to the timo ox St- Mar tin’s : “Jess'!, lover of my soul, Let tne to tliy bos, m fiv While die billows near me roll While the tempest still is high •’ The heart right toward God and man we are happy. The heart wreng toward God and man, we are unhappy. A TEMPORARY AHKANUEMEX". 111, Another reason why we sheuld come to this spirit inculca ted in the text is tho fact that all the differences of earthly condition are transitory. The houses you build, t.be land you culture, the pla ces in which you barter are seon to go into other hands However hard you may havo ( it now. if you area Christian the scone will soon end. Bair., trial, peijt< cutisn never knock at the door pf the grave. A coffin made ant qf piuo boards is just as good a rafting place as one made out of silver-mounted mahogany orrosewfud. Go down among the resting pla ces of the-dead amt,you will find that thu ugh people, tlioro had a great difference of worldly cireum stances, now they are all alike uu conscious. The hand that greeted the nenotor aud the president and the king is as still as tho hand that hardened on tho mechanic's hammer or the manufacturers wheel. It does not any differ once now r whether there was a plain stone ab»va them from which the traveller pulls aside the weeds to read the name, or a tad shaft springing into the heavens ns though to tell their virtues of the skies, in that silent laud there are no titles for grout men and there are no rumblings of chariot wheels aud there is never board the foot of tho dance. The EGYPTIAN GUANO. which is throwD on the fields in the East for the enrichment of the soil, is thedu® lakal out from tho sepulchres of kings aud lords and mighty men. Oh tho chagrin of ihoso mighty men if they bad ev • er known that in after ages of the world they would have been called Egyptian guano 1 IV. A l. other* "Pfiasoii why we should culture a spirit of cheerful j ness is the fact that GOD K.MOWS WHAT IS BEST for his creatures You know what is best for your child. He thinks yon are n*t as liberal with him as you ought to lie. Ho criticizes your discipline; but you look over the whole field, and you, lovir g that child, do what in your -lelbe r ate judgement is best for him. Now God is the best of fathers. Sometimes His children think that He is hard an them and that He is net as liberal with them as He might be. But children do not know an much as a father. I can tolf yon why you are not largely alll tout an 1 why you , ixuve not been grandly successful. It is because you cannot stand the temptation. If your path has been smooth, yon would have depended upor. your own surefootedness; but God roughened that, path so yon would have t@ take hold of His hand. II the weather has been mild yon would have loitered along the water courses, but at the first, howl of the storm yon quickened your pace heavenward and wrapped around you the warm robe of a Savkmr’s righteous ness. “What have I done,” says the wheatsheaf to the fanner, “ what have I done that you beat me so haid with your Hail *”,The farmer makes no answer, but tha rake takes off the straw, and the mill blows the chaff to the wind, and the golden grain falls down at the foot of the windmill. After awhile the straw looking down from the mow upon the golden grain banked up on either side the floor understands why the far mer beat the wheatsheaf with the flail. Who are these before the throne? answer 'Ninie “these are they whe out of great tribulation had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the lamb. Would to God that, we could understand that oor trials ar° the very best thing for us. If we hud uu appreei ation of that truth then we should knew why it was that •/>hu Noyr tho martyr, in tho very midst of the flame reached down and pick ed up one of the faggots that was consuming him and said : “Bless od bo God for the time when I was bom to this preferment." They who suffor with him on earth shall bo glorified with him in lioav en. Be content then with such things as yon have. V . Another consideration lead ing ns to the spirit of the text is the assurance that THE LORD WILL PROVIDE somehow. Will 110 who holds the water in the hollow of Ilia hand allow Ilia children to die of thirst? Will He who owiib (lie cattle on a thousand hills asd all tho earth s luxuriance of grain anil fruit, allow His children to starve? be out to morrow morning at five o’clock, into the woods and hear the birds chant, They have had no b-eak fast. They knew not where the) will difle. They have no idea where they will sup But bear the birds chant at five o’clock in tho morning. ‘Behold the fowls of the air, fer they sow not neither do they gather into barns, yet your heavenly Either feedetb them. Are ye not much better than they? Seven thousand people m Christ's time wont in*o the desert They were the most improvident people I over heard of. They were deserved to starve. They might have taken food enough to last them until they got back. Nothing did they take. A lad, who had more wit than all of them put together, asked his mother that morning for some loaves es bread and some fishes. They wero put into his satchel. Ho went out in to the de- ert. From this provis ion the 7000 were fed, and the more t icy ate the larger the loaves grew, until the provision that tho boy brought in one satchel was multiplied so ho could not have carried the fragments home in six satchels. ‘Oh,’ you say, ‘times have changed and tho day of mira e'es has gone.’ 1 reply that what bod did then by miracle He does now hi some other way and by nat nral laws. have been young,' said David. •but now am I old; yet have I nov er seen tho rioheous forsaken nor h’s seed begging bread.’ li. is high time that you people who are fretting about worldly cireum stances and who are fearing you are coining to want, understood that the oath of the Eternal God is involved in tho fact that y’ou are to havo enough to cat and to wear. VI. Again 1 remark that the r c ligion of Jesus Christ is die grand ost influence to make a man con tented. INDEMNITY AOAINHT ALU financial ami spiritual harm. It calms the spirit, dwindles tho earth into insignificance and swal lows up the sonl with tho thought of heaven. oye who have been going about from place to place expecting to find in change of cir cumstances something to give sol ace *o the spirit, I commend yon to the waim hearted, earnest, prac tical, commonsense religion of the Lord Jesus Christ. ‘There is no peace, saith my God, for the wick ed,’and as long as you continue in yonr sin you will be miserable- Como to Christ. Make Him your portion and start for heaven and you will be a happy man—you will be a happy woman. Yet my friends notwithstanding all these inducements to a spirit of contentment, I havo to tell you that the human race io divided in two classes—those who scold and those who get scolded. The car penter wants to be anything but a carpenter, and the mason anything bntja mason, and the banker any thing but a ban) er, and the I«w yer anything but a lawyer, and the minister anything but a minister, jVol. XII.—No. 49 an I ever 'body would I>* happy if ho were sorubody she. Parents hare the worst children that ever were, and everybody has the great cst mi«fortune and everything is upside down or going te be. Ah, iny friends, you never make any advance through such a spirit as that. YOU CANNOT I'UKT YOUR6KLF UP. you may fret yourself down. Amid all this grating of tones I strike this string of tho gospel harp : ‘Qjdliness with contentment is great gain. We brought nothing into this world, and it is very cer tain wo can carry notlrng out; having food and raiment lot us therewith be content." Let us nil remember, if we arc Christians, that we are going after awhile, whatever bo our circum stances now, to have a glorious vacation As in summer wo put oil’ our garments and go down iuto tho cool sea to bathe, so we 'will put off these garments of flesh and step into the cool Jordan. We will look around for some place t > lay down our weariness, and the tiees will say : “Como and rest mi der onr shadow!" and the earth will say : “Como and sloep in my bosom and the winds will say, “Hush, while I sing thee a ciudle hymn;" and while six strong men carry us out to eur last resting place and ashes como to ashes and dust to dust, we will see two scarred feet standing amid the broken soil and a lacerated brow bending ovei the opei grave, while a voico tender with all affection and mighty with all omnipotence will declare: ‘I am the resurrec tion and the life ; ho that belioveth in Me, though ha ware dead, yet shall ho live.’ Cemfort one anoth erwith these words. The Governors of Goorgia. 1 have taken the troubled to compile from tho eflioial records the following Sesijui Octennial list of the Governors of Georgia,which will be found valuable for rsfer o co, and also show the propriety of having Governor Stephens, the Scsqui Centennial Governor, as the orator on Monday : 1732 gun. JAB. kd. ooi.KriiDßfa 1732 VVm Stephens 1 “ a:{ VV in Rabun I*l7 floury barker 17 ."> 1M at Talbot 18111 Jno Reynolds 1754 J ohn Clark 181!) Henry Kills 17.47 GII Troup 1823 Jus Wright 1701 John Foisylh 1827 J Habe-s'.mm 1771 (J It Gilmer 18211 VVm Kw.-n 1775 VV its on Luin- Arc 1 -. Bulloch 1776, kin 1831 Hutton Gv*in- | Win Schley 18 ft nett 1777 G R Gdiner 1837 J V Treutlen 1777 Ghas J Me- J llourtoun 1778 Donald 1839 John Wereat 1770 Geo VV Craw- Geo Walton 1779 lord 1845 It Howley 178 i Geo VV Towns 1847 btepli. Heard 1 781,11 ■•well Cobb 18.41 Nathan Brown H V Johnson 1853 •me 1781 J h Brown 18.47 John Martin 1782 Ju* John-on, Lyman Hull 1783 Provisional J Houstoun 178 t! Governor 1805 Sam Klb"rt 1785 Chus. J. Jt-n- K«l. Telfair 1780 kins 130.4 G Matthews 1787jGen T H Rug Jarc<l Irvrin 1 79G; get’, US A . Jas Jack •‘on 1798 Military Gov David Baiun- ernor 1808 uel 1801 Rufus u Bu'. Josiali Tatnnll IHOlj 10 -k 1868 .John Vlillcge 1802;li Conely Pres Jared Irwin 1806, Senate 1871 1) it Mitcheli 1801). J VI Smith 1872 Peter Karly 1813 A 11 Colquitt 1870 D 15 Mitchell 1815, 1882. nov. ai.v.x a. srupwcNs. 1882. The above list includes Royal Governors. the Presidents of Pro visional Councils, tho CelonialGov ernors, tha Governors under the Constitution, and Presidents of the Sensate as governors ad intfr im. The list is complete but not classified. Some served only a few months, hence tw® names ap pear for the same year or term of office. Governors Button Gwin nett, George Walton, aad Lyman Hall were the ‘Signers of the Dec laration of Independence” from Georgia, and were known, with many ethers about Savannah, as the “Liberty boys’ during tho Revolutionary struggle. It is a singular fact that from Governor Drown to Governor Ogle thorpe, all the Governors are dead; and from Gov. Brown to Gov. Sle phens they are all alivo; Governor Brown f irming the dividing line between tho dead and the living.— Savannah X "" AiV— A n A tin r i iniii f/ 31 < till in The HERALD in itnei/ttaied by rearnn of it* ertrnmve rirruinlicti and rrvuirkuhl>j low rate*. limine** men xhvuld r<member thin. BLANKSfBLANKS! BLANKS (am. KINDS .NKATI.Y pkintud) FOR SALE ATTHI UK If A LIJ JO It OFFICE HTY I M I \ WASH IMi t O.V llow tbo >E;id;ili>««* .tJako I.L'o Worth fiiviiig in the Capital City. One of the handsomest turnouts in town is a light spring landau that cost $2,80i). It is upholstered in heavy crimson satin and perfum ed with the fair owner s favori’e flower—violets. It is drawn by a pair of light bays, young, fleet footed creatures worth $1,200. They wear u $llOO gold mounted harness and SIOO blankets, with beautifully embroidered mono grams in the corners, io keep their shining coats from the frosty air. The man who bonis tho ribbons over them lias his livery furninhsd and receives SSO a month, with a stable man to help him. H* tucks a SOOO lap robe of sealskin about him, and flourishes a whip that cost SB. Thu nobby footman who opens and closet the carriage door, who races up and down steps and rings the bells must not bear about him any flavor of tho stable. He re ceives $25 a mouth, when ysung and charming, and none other less favored will fill that post accepta bly. llis livery is also furnished by his employers. While those horses or being groomed, scraped, washed and pol ished they aie put in harness j then they prance before the deor with the soft cushioned, faintly poi fumed carriage, ready for the lady She enters, ’i he hair dress ei s art has embellished her ewn and other’s hair—now hers by pur chase■ her maid or a professional Ims polished her finger tips until the nails have tho appearance of tiny sou shells. For effect, as we have described, she wears the won derful pink silk dress with tho rose pattern luce, a dress costing SI,OOO. The jewels worn are large, opals set with diamonds, valued it $2,000 more. A closo fitting, fur 'iued jacket protects the lace cov ©red arms aud bosom from the cold, and an ample dolman *f seal skin trimmed with sable is worn over that, the deep hood of which is brought over tho head and face. The wrap was bought far SSOO. — The carriage floor is covered with a long woolen vicuna rug; besides there is a foot muff of Russian far worth SSO, for the lady's feet..— These are clad in richly embroider ed silken stockings for which waa paid $25, and the satin boots cost sls mors. Her handkerchief of poist lace is worth ten times ;its weight in gold. Her fan, gloves and Ixi'piot of long stemmed rose lmds are another SIOO. If there are several receptions on the same evening tho lady and escort can stop but a short time at each. To expedite matters, tire footraan in that case waits at the door with the wraps until they come out, as tine saves tho trouble of ascend ing to the dressing rooms. Jt is but n dress parade. The same people utter the same plati tudes from house to house, until the waning night or dawning ‘lay sends tthsra to their beds. When our grand dame returns home her maid helps her up stairs, undress es and puts on her mistress a soft, warm, negligee robe, brushes out her hair to woo sleep, nhd when dreivsiness comes lifts liar bodily and lays her in lied, S.)mo folks may imagine that the daughter of the Pharoaks did great things, but or queen of eoci oty owns a steam yacht that could run down the old Nile bargo and sink it in no time, and she has money enough to buy a whole car go of rare German and French wines without fooling with her jewelry. ElizabotbTu b>r was so proud of o o forlorn pair of silk stockings that were made a present to h®r that she mentionpd it in history. Our fine lady has dozens of pairs in all shades and colors. Sho has silk hangings, rich carpets, raro paintings and delightful music ; exotics in mid-winter and ices in dog days. Sho has mire comforts and greater luxuries than the grand , monarch ever dreamed of iu his most pleasure pursuin ; age. Think of seven thousand in watermelons. And yet this ia the number of acres to ba planted by southwest Ga., furmars this season. Rewards to the amount ®f six tien hundred dollars are offered for the convif tion of tin* murderer I of Jacob .‘8 iaivk who was killed is j oeutly m G .in^viik.
